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Farming & the land, 1928

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Imported Pace Bravado, Zuleika Warwick Farm Finals

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 8

The imported horses Bravado and Zuleika were among the star performers at Randwick this morning, when a number of…

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Terrific Storm Hail Flattens Crops All Windows Broken Orange

The Sun · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 15

The heaviest hailstorm ever experienced in the Spring Hill and Huntley districts, occurred at noon to-day. Extensive damage was done to crops and…

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Pink Pills for Pale Farmers

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

ASK the man on the land who thinks ... Not more laws, but more chemistry--scientific research--is what the farmer needs. There is a growing belief that from the chemist's tube rather than the Statute Book will come the greatest helps to…

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Electricity in Farming Expert on England's Need Foreign Success

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 3

AST changes within the next few years in methods of British agriculture by the electrifying of the countryside are foreshadowed by Dr…

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Scratchings Warwick Farm

The Labor Daily · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 2

Lerala Handicap: Janitor All engagements: Davermaice, Ciggle…

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The Dairying Boom Most Districts Promise Record Production South Coast Is Dry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 12

Pastures abundant, stock in good condition, cream supplies increasing. Such is the tone of reports from field…

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Sheep and Wool Returns

The Labor Daily · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 8

Sheepowners throughout New South Wales are reminded that the special sheep and wool return issued by the Government statistician is now due, and…

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Sheep and Wool Return

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 10

Sheep-owners throughout New South Wales are reminded that the special sheep and wool return issued by the Government Statistician, as…

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Sheep and Wool Returns. Warning to Sheep Owners

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 6

Sheep owners throughout New South Wales are reminded that the special sheep and wool return issued by the Government Statistician is now…

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Year's Sheep and Wool Returns Now Due Nine More Days' Grace

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 12

Sheepowners throughout the State should note that the special sheep and wool return issued by the Government Statistician is now due, and must be…

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Queensland's Sheep Losses

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 9

Mr. W. A. Russell, M.L.A., Queensland, referring to the statement in yesterday's "Herald" by Mr. Kilpatrick, M.L.A. regarding the drought losses in Queensland, that during…

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Wheat Queries

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 5

"Hopefield" asks: 1. Which State, New South Wales or Victoria, has produced most wheat since the year 1920? 2. How much wheat still…

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Wheat Loadings

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

WAGGA, Thursday. -- The first train on the new railway from Uranquinty towards Moon's Siding ran to-day. It lifted the wheat slacked at the…

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American Wheat. Estimate of the Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 8

The United States Department of Agriculture announced this week that it estimated the 1927 crop of winter wheat at 552,384,000-bush, worth…

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Drought Losses. Pastoral Committee's Enquiry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 9

Mr. J. W. Allen, secretary, stated yesterday that the Federal Committee to inquire into the pastoral industry, more especially to minimise drought losses, would resume its sittings…

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Cheaper Butter on

Evening News · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 7

Butter will be [?] cheaper on Monday, at [?] or [?] wholesale, and to 1,10 [?] retail…

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'Rigging" the Butter Market

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 4

[?]ding is quoted from a market report in the "Labor Daily," the [?] of the Labor party. The remarks which followed condemned [?] of the Butter Stabilisation Committee to obtain for the dairy payable price for their product. While the Labor politicians, for…

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World's Wheat Marketed

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 6

Prior to the war, wheat caine from mainly seven sources: 24 per cent, from Russia, 13 per cent, from Argentina, 11 per cent, from Canada, 8 per…

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Wheat at Goulburn

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

At one time a considerable quantity of wheat was grown in the Goulburn district, but the practicc died out many yenrs ago. However, there…

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Wheat From Delungra

The Land · Friday 6 January 1928 · page 13

Twenty, thousand bag's of wheat have been received at Delungra, and another 10,000 butfs are expected. Thin, however, will only be about a third of…

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